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English

Etymology

From Middle English element, from Old French element, from Latin elementum (“a first principle, element, rudiment”) (see further etymology there).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?l'?m?nt, IPA^(key): /??l?m?nt/
• Hyphenation: el?e?ment

Noun

element (plural elements)

1. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
   • 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides

     The simplicity which is so large an element in a noble nature was laughed to scorn.

   1. (chemistry) Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.
   2. One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.
   3. (law) A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded as a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
   4. (set theory) One of the objects in a set.
   5. Any of the teeth of a zip fastener.
2. A small part of the whole.
3. (obsolete) The sky.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 69:

     Sometimes, solitude is of all things my wish; and the awful silence of the night, the spangled element, and the rising and setting sun, how promotive of contemplation!

4. (plural only, with "the") Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.

5. A place or state of being that an individual or object is best suited to.

6. (Christianity, usually in the plural) The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
7. A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.

8. A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.

10. (computing) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.

Synonyms

• (in chemistry): chemical element, firststuff (rare, nonstandard)
• (in set theory): member

Hyponyms

• chemical element
• data element
• heating element

Derived terms

• single-element

Related terms

• elemental
• elementary

Translations

See also

• atom

Verb

element (third-person singular simple present elements, present participle elementing, simple past and past participle elemented)

1. (obsolete) To compound of elements.
   • 1633, John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

     those things which elemented [love]

   • 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist:

     elemented bodies

   • 1681, Maunyngham, Disc., page 89:

     thou art elemented and organed

2. (obsolete) To constitute and be the elements of.
   • 1658, Izaak Walton, Life of Donne:

     His very soul was elemented of nothing but sadness.

Related terms

• transelement

Further reading

• element in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• element in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

• Lehmann, R.G. (2011). "27-30-22-26 - How many letters needs an alphabet?". In de Voogt, A.; Quack, J.F. The Idea of Writing: Writing Across Borders. Brill. pp. 15–16, note 8.

Anagrams

• leetmen

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin elementum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?.l??ment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?.l??men/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /e.le?ment/

Noun

element m (plural elements)

1. element (clarification of this definition is needed)

Derived terms

• elemental
• element químic

Further reading

• “element” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “element” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “element” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “element” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Latin elementum

Noun

element

1. element.

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Danish

Noun

element n (singular definite elementet, plural indefinite elementer)

1. (set theory) element

Declension

References

• “element” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch element, from Old French element, from Latin elementum (“a first principle, element, rudiment”), of uncertain origin (see further etymology there).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.l??m?nt/
• Hyphenation: ele?ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

element n (plural elementen, diminutive elementje n)

1. element
2. (chemistry) element
3. (set theory) element

Derived terms

• elementair

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: elemen

Anagrams

• leemten

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin elementum

Noun

element n (definite singular elementet, indefinite plural element or elementer, definite plural elementa or elementene)

1. an element

References

• “element” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin elementum

Noun

element n (definite singular elementet, indefinite plural element, definite plural elementa)

1. an element

References

• “element” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin elementum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?.m?nt/

Noun

element m inan

1. element (component, piece of a larger whole)
2. (derogatory) element (group of people)

Declension

Further reading

• element in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• element in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French élément, from Latin elementum.

Noun

element n (plural elemente)

1. element

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Bosnian, Serbian): elèmenat

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /el?ment/
• Hyphenation: e?le?ment

Noun

elèment m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. element

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

element n

1. element; basic building block of matter in ancient philosophy
2. element; a place or state of being that an individual or object is better suited towards
3. elements; forces of weather
4. element; an object in a set
5. (mathematics) element of a matrix
6. heating element, radiator
7. (computing) element; object in markup language

Declension

Related terms

• elementär
• elementa
• elementar-

Turkish

Etymology

From German Element.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?.le.?ment]
• Hyphenation: e?le?ment

Noun

element (definite accusative elementi, plural elementler)

1. (chemistry) element

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?t/, [p??t], [p???t]
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Attested since the 1500s in the sense "indulged child" and since the 1530s in the sense "animal companion". From Scots and dialectal Northern English, of unclear origin. Perhaps a back-formation of petty, pety (“little, small”), a term formerly used to describe children and animals (e.g. pet lambs). Alternatively, perhaps a borrowing of Scottish Gaelic peata, from Old Irish petta, peta (“pet, lap-dog”), of uncertain (possibly pre-Indo-European) origin. Compare peat (“pet, darling, woman”).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

pet (plural pets)

1. An animal kept as a companion.
2. (by extension) Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects. (pet rock, pet plant, etc.)
3. One who is excessively loyal to a superior and receives preferential treatment.
4. Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling.
   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XIX:

     At first she sat silent; but that could not last: she had resolved to make a pet of her little cousin, as she would have him to be; and she commenced stroking his curls, and kissing his cheek, and offering him tea in her saucer, like a baby.

   • December 21, 1710, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 266

     the love of cronies, pets, and favourites

Synonyms

• companion animal

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pet (third-person singular simple present pets, present participle petting, simple past and past participle petted or (nonstandard) pet)

1. (transitive) To stroke or fondle (an animal).
2. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To stroke or fondle (another person) amorously.
3. (dated, transitive) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge.

4. (archaic, intransitive) To be a pet.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Feltham to this entry?)

5. (archaic, intransitive) To be peevish; to sulk.

Synonyms

• (to stroke or fondle an animal): pat, smooth
• (to stroke or fondle amorously): feel up, grope, touch up; see also Thesaurus:fondle
• (to treat as a pet): coddle, cosset; see also Thesaurus:pamper
• (to be peevish): mope, pout

Derived terms

• petting

Translations

Adjective

pet (not comparable)

1. Favourite; cherished; the focus of one's (usually positive) attention.
   • 1886, Frederic Harrison, The Choice of Books

     Some young lady's pet curate.

   • 1875, William Conant Church, The Galaxy, page 141:

     Major Butler has a pet grievance and a pet aversion, which he forces on the reader in every chapter, and which becomes at last very wearisome.

   • 1991, Deborah G. Douglas, United States Women in Aviation, 1940-1985, page 9:

     In an interview with Flying magazine, Heberding commented that her pet annoyance was "the reluctance of people generally to accept a woman whether as a pilot or a preflight inspector."

2. Kept or treated as a pet.

Derived terms

Translations

References

Etymology 2

Clipping of petulance.

Noun

pet (plural pets)

1. A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 105:

     There was something ludicrous, even more, unbecoming a gentleman, in leaving a friend's house in a pet, with the host's reproaches sounding in his ears, to be matched only by the bitterness of the guest's sneering retorts.

Etymology 3

Clipping of petition.

Noun

pet (plural pets)

1. Abbreviation of petition.

Etymology 4

Clipping of petal.

Noun

pet (plural pets)

1. (Ireland, Tyneside) A term of endearment usually applied to women and children.

References

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN

See also

• pet coke

Anagrams

• EPT, PTE, Pte, TPE, Tep, ept

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitan pet), from Latin p?ditum (compare French pet, Spanish pedo, Italian peto).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?p?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?p?t/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pet/

Noun

pet m (plural pets)

1. (colloquial) fart

Related terms

• petar
• petat
• llufa f

Further reading

• “pet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English bed.

Noun

pet

1. bed

   • Iwe upwe pw?r ngeni kemi pwe mi wor an ewe Noun Aramas manamanen omusano tipis won fonufan. Iwe a apasa ngeni ewe mwan mi mwök, 'Upwe erenuk, kopwe uta, kopwe eki om na pet o feinno non imwom!"

     Therefore I will show you that the Son of Man has the power of forgiving sins on earth. So he said to the sick man, 'I tell you, stand, grab your bed and go to your house!"

Dutch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?t/
• Hyphenation: pet
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

pet m (plural petten, diminutive petje n)

1. cap (headwear with a peak at the front)

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: pet
• ? Indonesian: peci

Adjective

pet (comparative petter, superlative petst)

1. (slang) bad, crappy

Inflection

Derived terms

• naatje pet

Descendants

• ? Papiamentu: pèchi (from the diminutive)

French

Etymology

From Old French pet, inherited from Latin p?ditum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?/
• Homophones: pais, pait, paît, paix, paie, paies, pets
• (Quebec, informal) IPA^(key): /p?t/

Noun

pet m (plural pets)

1. (colloquial) fart
2. (colloquial) (nonstandard) Common apocope for pétard (joint) (pronounced IPA^(key): /p?t/ in singular and plural). Rarely pèt.

Synonyms

• vesse

Derived terms

• comme un pet sur une toile cirée
• pet-de-nonne

Related terms

• péter

Further reading

• “pet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin pectus.

Noun

pet m (plural pets)

1. (anatomy) chest

See also

• sen

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch pet, probably from French toupet. Doublet of peci.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?t??]
• Hyphenation: pèt

Noun

pet (plural pet-pet, first-person possessive petku, second-person possessive petmu, third-person possessive petnya)

1. cap (headwear with a peak at the front)

   Hypernym: topi

Further reading

• “pet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle French

Noun

pet m (plural pets)

1. (vulgar) fart, gas, flatulence

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?t/

Noun

pet m anim (diminutive pecik)

1. (colloquial) cigarette butt

   Synonyms: kiep, niedopa?ek

2. (colloquial, derogatory) cigarette

   Synonyms: papieros, fajek, szlug

Declension

Further reading

• pet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English pet.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?p?t??/
  • Homophones: PET, patch

Noun

pet m (plural pets)

1. (Brazil, upper class slang) pet (animal kept as a companion)

   Synonyms: animal de estimação (much more common), mascote

See also

• pet shop

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) pèz
• (Sutsilvan) péz

Etymology

From Latin pectus.

Noun

pet m (plural pets)

1. (Puter, Vallader, anatomy) chest, thorax

Related terms

• (Rumantsch Grischun) sain
• (Sursilvan) sein
• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) sagn

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *p?t?, from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pê?t/, /pêt/

Numeral

p?t (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. five (5)

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *p?t?, from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pé?t/

Numeral

p??t

1. five

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

pet

1. genitive dual/plural of peta

Westrobothnian

Noun

pet n

1. bad worker who does not get anything out of his hands completely done